Does it really matter if marriage is redefined in our society?

If men want to marry men and women want to marry women, how does it affect us?

Here's what Vody Bachham says.

The Bible tells me that marriage between a man and a woman is a picture of the covenant relationship

between Jesus Christ and his bride, the church, so that anything other

than that is blaspheming Christ and his gospel.

That's why I have a dog in this fight.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of Holiness, The Heart

God Purifies for Friday, June 9th, 2017.

One of the core convictions of evangelical Christianity, and here it revive our hearts, is that the Bible is the inspired, infallible word of God.

And that's why it's important to learn to interpret God's word accurately.

Theologians call that having a proper hermeneutic. It just means correctly interpreting

the Bible. Now, interpreting God's word rightly has huge practical implications. And we see that in our

day in debates about such things as gender identity, sexuality, homosexuality, etc.

Yesterday, Pastor Vody Bakum began providing a really helpful interpretation of some Old Testament laws that get a lot of people tripped up today.

He addressed the question, if some of the laws given to ancient Israel don't apply to us anymore,

why do the moral laws still apply? It's an important question, and I thought he addressed it so

helpfully. In fact, when I heard this message at Moody Bible Institute, I came back and said to

our producer, we've got to share this message with the Revive Our Hearts audience.

If you missed part one yesterday, I want to encourage you to go back and listen to it at

revive our hearts.com. Now, here's part two of that message from Voddy Baccom.

So the first answer to that question, why do I pick and choose?

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